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Daniel Frey wrote: |
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> On 12/1/18 8:38 PM, Dale wrote: |
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>> It's been a while but last I used Fluxbox, it was tiny. If you just do |
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>> a basic install, it isn't much to it. Of course, it isn't feature rich |
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>> either but it should run well on a low powered machine or consume very |
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>> little resources on a bigger system. I've got two fluxbox packages |
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>> installed here. Here is some info on them. |
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>> root@fireball / # equery s x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod |
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>> x11-wm/fluxbox |
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>> * x11-themes/fluxbox-styles-fluxmod-20050128-r1 |
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>> Total files : 1539 |
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>> Total size : 4.22 MiB |
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>> |
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>> * x11-wm/fluxbox-1.3.7-r3 |
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>> Total files : 339 |
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>> Total size : 3.89 MiB |
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>> root@fireball / # |
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>> I'm not sure the top one is needed. I think I installed it so I could |
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>> tweak a few things. At one point, I thought about switching, back when |
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>> KDE was a disaster. |
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>> I'm sure others will have ideas but you may want to check into Fluxbos. |
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>> Install time is pretty short. If you don't like it, just unmerge it. I |
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>> keep it installed here just in case a KDE update goes sideways. |
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>> Dale |
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>> :-) :-) |
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> Thanks Dale! |
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> After the new stable 4.14.x kernel finishes compiling I think I'll |
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> give that a try. I completely forgot about fluxbox. The one I was |
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> thinking about was maybe enlightenment, but there are likely many of |
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> these things out there. |
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> On that machine I don't even boot to a login manager of any sort. So |
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> keeping things simple is great. |
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> Dan |
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You may want to google to be sure but I think the command can be |
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something like: |
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startx <path to fluxbox> Should be /usr/bin/fluxbox. |
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That's if you want to start it manually each time. There are others |
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ways if you want. I think the only requirement is a working video card |
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driver, nvidia-drivers in my case. |
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Hope you find something you like. You are right, there are a LOT of |
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them out there. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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